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What's changed Added screen reader mode: opt-in plain-text rendering for screen reader users. Run claude --ax-screen-reader , set CLAUDE_AX_SCREEN_READER=1, or add "axScreenReader": true to settings. Added vimInsertModeRemaps setting: map two-key insert-mode sequences like jj to Escape in vim mode Added CLAUDE_CODE_PROCESS_WRAPPER : agent view and the background service now honor a corporate launcher by running every Claude Code self-spawn through a required wrapper executable Added mouse-click support for multi-select menus and "Other" input rows in fullscreen mode Fixed fast mode staying off

One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude Max plans: We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19. As before, you can use up to half of your weekly usage limit on Fable 5. After that, you can continue using Fable 5 with usage credits, or switch to another model to keep working within your remaining limits. Anthropic's original rationale for this was compute constrain

What's changed Auto mode is now available without CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE opt-in on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry; disable via disableAutoMode in settings Fixed the terminal freezing and keystrokes lagging while streaming responses containing very long lists, tables, paragraphs, or code blocks Fixed remote managed settings from a non-interactive run ( claude -p , the SDK) being permanently recorded as consented without ever showing the security consent dialog Fixed spurious prompt-injection warnings triggered by benign system-generated conversation updates Fixed the auto-updater overwri

What's changed Added directory path suggestions to /cd , matching /add-dir behavior Added a /doctor check that proposes trimming checked-in CLAUDE.md files by cutting content Claude could derive from the codebase /commit-push-pr now auto-allows git push to the repo's configured push remote ( remote.pushDefault , or the sole remote when only one is configured) in addition to origin Gateway: /login now supports Anthropic-operated public gateway endpoints EnterWorktree now asks for confirmation before entering a git worktree outside the project's .claude/worktrees/ directory Background agents now

OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning , and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus series are $5/$25 and the Claude Fable 5 is $10/$50, but price-per-million tokens doesn't tell us much now that the number of reasoning tokens can differ so much between models for the same task. All three models have a February 16th 2026 knowledge cutoff, a million token context window, and 128,000 maximum output tokens. O

Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post ( since May 9th ) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it was worth the wait. This is a detailed description of an extremely sophisticated piece of agentic engineering, featuring dynamic workflows, trial runs, adversarial review and all sorts of other interesting tricks. Jarred spends the first half of the post praising Zig for getting Bun this far. Then we get to a core idea in the piece, emphasis mine: Our bugfix list felt bad and I was tired of goi

What's changed Added an auto mode rule that blocks tampering with session transcript files Fixed --json-schema silently producing unstructured output when the schema was invalid, and schemas using the format keyword being rejected Fixed a message sent while Claude was working being silently lost when the turn ended at the --max-turns limit Fixed Windows worktree removal deleting files outside the worktree when an NTFS junction or directory symlink existed inside it Fixed background agents staying shown as "failed" or "completed" in the agent list after being resumed with SendMessage Fixed back

What's changed Added a warning when your login is about to expire, so you can re-authenticate before background sessions are interrupted Added a grey ⏸ badge to the footer when in manual permission mode, making the active mode always visible Added the session's additional working directories to MCP roots/list , with notifications/roots/list_changed sent when the set changes Fixed opening or switching background agent sessions on macOS stalling for 15–20 seconds due to a false low-memory detection (regression in 2.1.196) Fixed background sessions becoming permanently unresponsive to attach, rep

This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0 , the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide ), this version introduces three major features: database migrations , nested transactions (via a new db.atomic() method), and support for compound foreign keys . Database schema migrations using sqlite-utils Schema migrations define a sequence of changes to be made to a SQLite database, plus a mechanism for tracking which migrations have been applied and applying any

We will be introducing a new Usage report covering Microsoft 365 Copilot. This report will include total enabled and active users, Copilot usage with a breakout per Microsoft 365 app, and user-level activity insights (anonymized by default). #copilotcontrolsystem GA date: July CY2026